Erich Gamma
Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of the software engineering textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Gamma, along with Kent Beck, co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework which helped create test-driven development and helped influence and revolutionized the whole software industry. He was the development team lead of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT), and worked on the IBM Rational Jazz project.
Erich Gamma
- Name
- Erich Gamma
- Birthplace
- Zürich
- Field
- Software engineering
- Education
- University of Zurich
- Known for
- Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code
- Awards
- Dahl–Nygaard Prize 2006; ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award 2010
- Born
- 1961 · Zurich.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- computer scientist · engineer · writer
- Fields
- software development
- Honours
- Dahl–Nygaard Prize · Programming Languages Achievement Award · ACM Software System Award
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In 2011 he joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland, that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Azure DevOps Services (formerly Visual Studio Team Services and Visual Studio Online), Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the Office 365 Development tools.
Erich Gamma studied at University of Zurich. The field of work recorded is software development. Employment is recorded with IBM and Microsoft. Works named in the authority record are Design Patterns. Distinctions recorded are Dahl–Nygaard Prize, Programming Languages Achievement Award and ACM Software System Award.
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• Name — Erich Gamma • Birthplace — Zürich • Citizenship — Swiss • Field — Software engineering • Education — University of Zurich • Known for — Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code • Awards — Dahl–Nygaard Prize 2006; ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award 2010
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Erich Gamma is recorded as having received Dahl–Nygaard Prize, Programming Languages Achievement Award and ACM Software System Award. Recognition and collections. Gamma received Dahl–Nygaard Prize, Programming Languages Achievement Award and ACM Software System Award.
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1961
Erich Gamma born at Zurich.
2009
Refactoring Improving The Design Of Existing Code (1st Edition) By Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts, Erich Gamma (2009) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
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